• Claree

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    Noun

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    1. (archaic) A drink made of wine, honey and spices.
      • circa 1300 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale, The Canterbury Tales:He dranke hippocras, clarre, and vernage
        Of spices hot, to increase his courage.
      • circa 1300 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, The Canterbury Tales:Of a clarree maad of a certeyn wyn,
        With nercotikes and opie of Thebes fyn.
      • 2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, page 3:At this hour of the morning she drank either ypocras or claree.
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